political machines in the 19th century

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Discipline History
Assignment type : Essay
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due at 11:59 for me so due at 11:30pm TONIGHT for you. I just need at a solid 750 words on political machine with some APA parenthetical citations from my online book as well as online sources. Im looking for C+ to B work, just NO PLAGIARISM!!!!!
n the second quarter of the nineteenth century, the United States experienced a social revolution that brought more and more Americans into a market-oriented economy. More and more people lived in rapidly expanding urban centers, where they worked for wages in growing industries. The traditional image of the United States as a nation of individualistic, self-sufficient farmers became a relic of a by-gone era, particularly in the growing cities of the northeast. As America became increasingly urban, complex organizations known as political machines emerged and exercised tremendous influence over city, state, and national governance. From their birth in the 1830s and 1840s until their decline in the early 20th century, political machines reigned in all major American cities. Machines operated by providing clear benefits to voters, through favors, jobs, and social assistance, in exchange for political support. **Think about the factors that allowed urban political machines to flourish during the nineteenth century. The people who wrote the country’s founding documents did not anticipate such highly organized and frequently corrupt institutions, yet political machines emerged as a direct consequence of the promise of mass democracy. Consider the effect of poverty and the demands of urban life, in an era without government-financed social welfare services. Write an essay that describes how urban political machines gained and maintained their power in the nineteenth century. Your essay should explain the strategies machine “bosses” used to achieve support from voters and describe how they used the American political system to their advantage. Also important is to recognize that despite the overwhelming corruption, political machines benefited poor citizens in a way no one else would or could.
Format MLA
Academic Level: –
Volume of 3 pages (825 words)